Cooking blocks in an upper town kitchen Lothal
The rooms of the upper town were obviously built for upper classes. They had private pathed brick baths and a remarkable network of drains and cesspools.
Ancient Indus civilization houses.
Row of private baths in Lothal
The proximity of the seat of power to the warehouse may have ensured that the ruler and his entourage could inspect stocks easily. An ivory workshop in the acropolis suggests that elephants may have been domesticated to produce the raw material.
Ravi Phase Floor
Excavations in Trench 39 South 1996 uncovered the floor of a house dating to the Ravi Phase (circa 3100 BCE). Many complete vessels were found sitting on the floor along with broken necklaces, bone and stone tools, spindle whorls and bangles made of
Mohenjo Daro Lower Town: VS Area
A view of the houses and streets in VS area, with the citadel and stupa mound in the background.
Town planning at Lothal
Town planning at Lothal.
Mohenjo-daro Lower Town: VS area and Stupa View
This general view of houses in VS area shows the color of the brick walls after the use of mud brick and clay slurry for conservation.
Nodule and Pottery Foundation fill, HR Area
Some of the later houses in HR area were constructed on top of massive deposits of garbage consisting of brick rubble, broken pottery and sometimes a thin layer of crushed, vitrified terracotta nodules.
Large houses, Mound AB, Harappa
This area in Mound AB, excavated in the 1920's revealed large houses thought to have belonged to upper class members of ancient Indus society.
House I, HR area
House A1 may have been a temple or palace of an important leader. Two doorways lead to a narrow courtyard at a lower level. A double staircase leads to an upper courtyard surrounded by several rooms.
HR area, Dead man's lane and First Street
The small lane at the left side of the photograph was called Dead Man's Lane because of the discovery of a single skeleton where the wall juts out into the lane. The large street running north south is First Street.